Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
US Cultural Diplomacy and Archaeology
Soft Power, Hard Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Archaeology’s links to international relations are well known: launching and sustaining international expeditions requires the honed diplomatic skills of ambassadors. U.S. foreign policy depends on archaeologists to foster mutual understanding, mend fences, and build bridges. This book explores...
by Abidin Kusno
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Visual Cultures of the Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia explores how visual representations shaped and were shaped by how the ethnic Chinese confronted the period of economic dislocation and radical social change during Dutch colonialism and the nationalist struggles in the decolonized Indonesia (including...
by John Storey
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Theories of Consumption explores the concept of consumption from the post-disciplinary perspective of cultural studies.
John Storey brings together work that up until now has been located in distinct disciplinary spaces including work on reception theory in literary studies and philosophy;...
The Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia
(Post)Socialism and Its Other
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This edited volume explores the cultural life of capitalism during socialist and post-socialist times within the geopolitical context of the former Yugoslavia. Through a variety of cutting edge essays at the intersections of critical cultural studies, material culture, visual culture, neo-Marxist...
Appetites
Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2002
Judith Farquhar’s innovative study of medicine and popular culture in modern China reveals the thoroughly political and historical character of pleasure. Ranging over a variety of cultural terrains--fiction, medical texts, film and television, journalism, and observations of clinics and urban daily...
The West in Asia and Asia in the West
Essays on Transnational Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
This collection of new essays examines the “transnational turn” in cultural studies between Asia and the West. Drawing on literature, history, culture, film and media studies, scholars from a range of disciplines explore the constructs of “Asia” and “the West” and their cultural collision....
Complex Inferiorities
The Poetics of the Weaker Voice in Latin Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
This volume investigates an important and surprisingly widespread phenomenon in Latin literature, which has to date received little sustained discussion: the deliberate assumption of a weaker voice by speakers who in fact hold sufficient status not to be forced into this position. Though often associated...
Place, Memory, and Healing
An Archaeology of Anatolian Rock Monuments
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Place, Memory, and Healing: An Archaeology of Anatolian Rock Monuments investigates the complex and deep histories of places, how they served as sites of memory and belonging for local communities over the centuries, and how they were appropriated and monumentalized in the hands of the political elites....
Collecting, Ordering, Governing
Anthropology, Museums, and Liberal Government
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
The coauthors of this theoretically innovative work explore the relationships among anthropological fieldwork, museum collecting and display, and social governance in the early twentieth century in Australia, Britain, France, New Zealand, and the United States. With case studies ranging from the Musée...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
This book explores race and multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore from a range of different disciplinary perspectives, showing how race and multiculturalism are represented, how multiculturalism works out in practice, and how attitudes towards race and multiculturalism – and multicultural practices...
by Šse Ottosson
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This detailed ethnographic study explores the intercultural crafting of contemporary forms of Aboriginal manhood in the world of country, rock and reggae music making in Central Australia. Focusing on four different musical contexts – an Aboriginal recording studio, remote Aboriginal settlements,...
Downhome Gospel
African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Jerrilyn McGregory explores sacred music and spiritual activism in a little-known region of the South, the Wiregrass Country of Georgia, Alabama, and North Florida. She examines African American sacred music outside of Sunday church-related activities, showing that singing conventions and anniversary...
Language, Culture and Power
English–Tamil in Modern India, 1900 to Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
This volume examines the relationship between language and power across cultural boundaries. It evaluates the vital role of translation in redefining culture and ethnic identity. During the first phase of colonialism, mid-18th to late-19th century, the English-speaking missionaries and East India...
Wild Tongues
Transnational Mexican Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Tracing the configuration of the slapstick, destitute Peladita/Peladito and the Pachuca/Pachuco (depicted in flashy zoot suits) from 1928 to 2004, Wild Tongues is an ambitious, extensive examination of social order in Mexican and Chicana/o cultural productions in literature, theater, film, music,...